You can move company files between Pro and Premier at any time, if you open a Premier company file in Pro you won’t be able to see or use the extra Premier features. Quickbooks Premier allows up to five users, has “Editions” that you choose during setup to customize for your business type (Manufacturing & Wholesale, Non-profit, Construction, Professional Services, Retail), Purchase Orders, Sales Orders, Inventory, and advanced reports. Quickbooks Pro covers basic accounting for businesses of all sizes, it’s intended for up to three users, and handles account registers, payables, receivables, quotations, basic reporting, and importing from most banks with online services.

Quickbooks has always been offered in several flavors: (Quickbooks Enterprise has already gone through this transition, and Quickbooks Online is its own thing with a myriad of options that isn’t changing as part of this either.) Intuit recently announced changes to the way they’re selling Quickbooks Desktop – Pro, Premier, and Accountant. The rest of this article is here for historical/archive purposes.

Since sales of QuickBooks 2021 have ended we no longer have a one-time purchase option.

2022 Update – Late in 2021 Intuit announced that Quickbooks 2022 will not be sold as a perpetual license.

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